CHAPTER VII .-- DUTY--TRUTHFULNESS.
"I slept, and dreamt that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty." "Duty! wondrous thought, that workest neither by fond insinuation, flattery, nor by any threat, but merely by holding up thy naked law in the soul, and so extorting for thyself always reverence, if not always obedience; before whom all appetites are dumb, however secretly they rebel"-- KANT.
"How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will! Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! "Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death; Unti'd unto the world by care Of public fame, or private breath.
"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of land; And having nothing, yet hath all."-- WOTTON.
"His nay was nay without recall; His yea was yea, and powerful all; He gave his yea with careful heed, His thoughts and words were well agreed; His word, his bond and seal." INSCRIPTION ON BARON STEIN'S TOMB.
DUTY is a thing that is due, and must be paid by every man who would avoid present discredit and eventual moral insolvency.

It is an obligation--a debt--which can only be discharged by voluntary effort and resolute action in the affairs of life.
Duty embraces man's whole existence.

It begins in the home, where there is the duty which children owe to their parents on the one hand, and the duty which parents owe to their children on the other.

There are, in like manner, the respective duties of husbands and wives, of masters and servants; while outside the home there are the duties which men and women owe to each other as friends and neighbours, as employers and employed, as governors and governed.
"Render, therefore," says St.Paul, "to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Owe no man anything, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law," Thus duty rounds the whole of life, from our entrance into it until our exit from it--duty to superiors, duty to inferiors, and duty to equals--duty to man, and duty to God.